Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
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| Oct 3 | #122 |
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How a Voice Agent Learns the Rhythm of Conversation — Shawn Wen
October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minTsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, CTO of PolyAI, tells Tim Scarfe why voice agents are harder than text agents. Voice adds time, and a good conversation depends on adapting to the person on the line, not just on reasoning to the best answer. Shawn…
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Who Checks a Proof No Human Can Read? — Leo de Moura
September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minLeonardo de Moura created Lean and co-created Z3. ---This episode is sponsored by Parallel.Parallel, where agents find answers: web search, extraction and deep research APIs built for AI agents.Start free with the Parallel MCP server and…
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When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang
September 26, 2026 · 44 minWeco let an AI coding agent rewrite the harness around another agent for eight days: its code, prompts and tools, while the underlying language model stayed fixed. Tim Scarfe asks Weco co-founder Zhengyao Jiang what the reported gains over…
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How Deep Learning Finally Cracked Messy Tables - Frank Hutter
September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 53 minFrank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, talks about TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that makes predictions in a single forward pass, and the research behind it. TabPFN is pre-trained on synthetic datasets drawn from a prior over…
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Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick
September 21, 2026 · 2 hr 14 minAlexander Mattick is a researcher at Fraunhofer IIS and a PhD researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), and a regular on Yannic Kilcher's Discord. He first came on MLST in 2022, after helping research the Yann LeCun and…
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How Physical AI Learns Across Language, Video and Action — Ming-Yu Liu
September 15, 2026 · 26 minThe car making a left turn at the start of this episode was never filmed. Cosmos 3 generated it. Ming-Yu Liu, who leads the Cosmos research at NVIDIA, explains how one model can describe a video, generate one, and produce robot…
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Speech Recognition Is Not a Solved Problem — Pavan Kumar Reddy
September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 42 minPavan Kumar Reddy leads audio research at Mistral AI. He joins Tim Scarfe for a deep technical tour of Voxtral — and explains why the frontier of deployed voice is still a cascade of specialised models rather than one end-to-end…
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How Replication Could Teach Machines What Good Science Looks Like — Edward Hughes
September 11, 2026 · 2 hr 2 minCan a machine learn the judgement that separates a plausible-looking result from a faithful experiment? Edward Hughes, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Inherent, joins Tim Scarfe to argue that creativity is not optimisation, and that the…